Y. Diversipes Advice

[athlete96]

So the little Y. diversipes I got two weeks ago is eating well. It seems to like the ground though.

Originally I was going to rehouse it from the 32oz delicup I put it in to a 16oz because it's only 0.5". It set up a web tunnel in some leaves, however, and was quite content there for a little less than 2 weeks. Now we're sitting on the ground. No sign of death curl, and it's quite plump from a cricket last night. Just likes its water dish now.



There's a cork bark slab in the enclosure with those huge fake leaves. Substrate is mostly coco fiber with a little bit of top soil mixed in.

Rehouse? Increase humidity? Increase ventilation? Being paranoid? First true arboreal; followed enclosure advice from previous searches on the forum.

 

[KezyGLA]

I wouldnt worry too much. IME these are more like Psalmopoeus and will make their homes behind the cork near the ground. The complete opposite from my Ybyrapora sooretama which all go as high as possible

 

[athlete96]

That's comforting to read. I'll be content as long as it keeps eating.

 

[cold blood]

I wouldnt worry too much. IME these are more like Psalmopoeus and will make their homes behind the cork near the ground. The complete opposite from my Ybyrapora sooretama which all go as high as possible

Interesting, I have never heard that about diversipes. Yeah, my sooretama never gets near the ground.

 

[KezyGLA]

Interesting, I have never heard that about diversipes. Yeah, my sooretama never gets near the ground.

I have only one adult female now but used to have 3. They were all on a shelf next to a few of my adult female Psalmos (2x reduncus and an irminia) all their enclosures looked exactly the same

 

[volcanopele]

Thanks for the heads up. My diversipes will be arriving tomorrow and I had planned on putting it in a arboreal sling enclosure from Jamie’s Tarantulas, in a similar setup to my Iridopelma zorodes and my Caribena versicolor. But if it spends a lot of time on the ground, it might be better off in a deli cup like my P. irminia or in a terrestrial juvenile enclosure from Jamie’s Tarantulas (basically a 4x4x4 acrylic box) like my Pachistopelma bromelicola. @cold blood , do they burrow at all? If they do, I should use the deli cup, so I can add more substrate. If not, the terrestrial enclosure should be fine...

 

[cold blood]

@KezyGLA is the one with diversipes experience.

 

[boina]

Thanks for the heads up. My diversipes will be arriving tomorrow and I had planned on putting it in a arboreal sling enclosure from Jamie’s Tarantulas, in a similar setup to my Iridopelma zorodes and my Caribena versicolor. But if it spends a lot of time on the ground, it might be better off in a deli cup like my P. irminia or in a terrestrial juvenile enclosure from Jamie’s Tarantulas (basically a 4x4x4 acrylic box) like my Pachistopelma bromelicola. @cold blood , do they burrow at all? If they do, I should use the deli cup, so I can add more substrate. If not, the terrestrial enclosure should be fine...

They don't really burrow.

I think they are just more opportunistic than other Avics/related. I've had one in a Kritter Keeper (with foliage, of course) for a few years and she made her home on the ground behind her bark, but without ever burrowing. I have two others in an Avicularia setup and they went up higher. I think they are just not as set in their ways as true Avics and will use whatever you give them, sometimes even preferring to make their web on the ground if they like the cover.

 

[KezyGLA]

I haven't noticed them burrow at all like Psalmo slings/juvs so they are not completely like Psalmo in that sense.

 

[athlete96]

I've only had my little one for two weeks, but honestly other than some small dirt curtains there's been no sign of burrowing. Not like my other psalms where they've immediately set up tunnels and such. Even my taps started burrowing.